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Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy : The Critical Citizen's Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric
Donald Lazere
Paperback - $102.95
This innovative textbook, for first-year English and more advanced composition and critical thinking courses, addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defense in the contentious arena ...
The Miracle of Language
Richard Lederer
Paperback - $24.95
MASTER VERBALIST RICHARD LEDERER, AMERICA'S "WIZARD OF IDIOM" (DENVER POST), PRESENTS A LOVE LETTER TO THE MOST GLORIOUS OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENTS...
Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and ...
Contexts of Metaphor
Michiel Leezenberg
Hardcover - $251.95
This study presents an approach to metaphor that systematically takes contextual factors into account. It analyses how metaphors both depend on, and change, the context in which they are uttered, and specifically, how metaphorical interpretation invo ...
Understanding ESL Writers : A Guide for Teachers
Ilona Leki
Paperback - $55.95
How do non-ESL writing teachers handle the writing of their ESL students when there is a language barrier to hurdle? How do teacher trainees prepare for the growing number of ESL students in U.S. schools? Full of practical advice and applications, in ...
Powerful Writing/Responsible Teaching
Timothy J. Lensmire
Paperback - $48.95
In this long-awaited book, Timothy J. Lensmire examines the problems and promise of progressive literacy education. He does this by developing a series of striking metaphors in which, for example, he imagines the writing workshop as a carnival and th ...
One World of Literature
Shirley Lim
Paperback - $170.95
"One World of Literature" addresses students' concerns about social relevance in their reading, and their growing interest in the literature of other cultures. This provocative anthology brings together fiction, poetry, and drama by twentieth-century ...
An Introduction to Composition Studies
Erika C. Lindemann
Paperback - $58.95
Nine commissioned essays introduce the non-specialist to the rapidly evolving field of composition studies, discussing the nature of the field, the relationship between composition and rhetoric and between theory and practice, the history of the disc ...